Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churches," said Bridges pointedly, "get economically self-sufficient. They don't really feel they need the rest of the world . . . I'm a Republican conservative from Maine, and it's difficult for me to say this: freedom is a dynamic thing . . . Long discussion reveals the anemic spirit of the church, and long discussion seems to keep it anemic...
...beer, and a riot"--that used to be a work able definition of the freshman Smoker. Some people still consider it so. The post-war Smoker, however, is supposed to serve the useful purpose of promoting class unity and injecting some group spirit into the chaotic Yard. That's what the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs maintains, at any rate, and this body has presented considerable evidence that the new-model Smoker can indeed become a fine class-conscious force. But the Committee feels that the Smoker cannot be held earlier than February because of certain "organizational difficulties...
...also be good laws and intelligent interpretations. It is obvious that the admirable use of the due process has here been used to cover up a poor interpretation of competence. Adherence to a belief does not, in itself, render a man incompetent to teach. Only when he subverts the spirit of objective inquiry to a belief does the teacher become incompetent. And that condition can only be determined by the unique evidence in each individual case...
...left him shaken and worried. One day, when he was wondering whether or not he should read Leigh Hunt on the comic dramatists of the Restoration (the Restoration was sometimes bawdy), he went to a séance. Unasked, the medium "received" and passed on to Doyle a "spirit-message": "Tell him not to read Leigh Hunt's book." Doyle was thunderstruck...
Johnny Gunther fought back with his youth, with unflinching spirit, with uncommon intelligence. His scientific interest in his illness was enormous-even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special. When, after Johnny's first operation, the surgeon told him what he had, Johnny telephoned his friend, Reviewer Lewis Gannett, and reported proudly: "They drilled three holes right through my head." Two weeks later he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein on the curvature of the universe. When the Book-of-the-Month Club picked Gunther's then unfinished Inside U.S.A...